Memory question.

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Can someone tell me why I have 512/456K memory total and after all
programs load I have 69K available. However after I run SpeedUpMyPC that
app get me 272,356K avail. What is this all about? Why do I need a third
party app to get back 272K of memory?

Any help?

TIA
 
Windows manages memory and finds a use for as much as possible. It continuously tunes itself.
SpeedUpMyPC just reduced the efficiency of your system for a few minutes.
 
or in other words... it pushes that memory from the RAM into the hard disk
as virtual memory, but that memory is slower when read from the hard disk.

So you may think that seeing more ram is good, but its not.

This is a spoof of all so called "memory optimizers" that are around for XP.

I suggest you take a look at what programs start up when your pc starts up
and disable as many as you can leaving the ones you need.

GO to START> RUN and type MSCONFIG and in the startup tab uncheck the ones
you dont want.


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"David Candy" <.> wrote in message
Windows manages memory and finds a use for as much as possible. It
continuously tunes itself.
SpeedUpMyPC just reduced the efficiency of your system for a few minutes.
 
stevek said:
Can someone tell me why I have 512/456K memory total and after all
programs load I have 69K available. However after I run SpeedUpMyPC
that app get me 272,356K avail. What is this all about? Why do I need
a third party app to get back 272K of memory?
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You don't need it, and shouldn't use such a third-party program.

Wanting to minimize the amount of memory Windows uses is a counterproductive
desire. Windows is designed to use all, or nearly all, of your memory, all
the time, and that's good not bad. Free memory is wasted memory. You paid
for it all and shouldn't want to see any of it wasted.

Windows works hard to find a use for all the memory you have all the time.
For example if your apps don't need some of it, it will use that part for
caching, then give it back when your apps later need it. In this way Windows
keeps all your memory working for you all the time.
 
stevek said:
Can someone tell me why I have 512/456K memory total and after all
programs load I have 69K available. However after I run SpeedUpMyPC that
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Because you want your apps to load in memory to run fast.
app get me 272,356K avail. What is this all about? Why do I need a third
party app to get back 272K of memory?
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You are wasting your time with SpeedUpMyPC. Hopefully you didn't waste
good, hard earned money on it.
 
stevek said:
Can someone tell me why I have 512/456K memory total and after all
programs load I have 69K available. However after I run SpeedUpMyPC that
app get me 272,356K avail. What is this all about? Why do I need a third
party app to get back 272K of memory?

Any help?

TIA
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You don't need a third party memory manager, and you don't need to
maximize free memory. XP's memory management system manages this just
fine. It tries to find a use for all memory, and when it's needed
elsewhere frees up what needs to be freed up.
 
stevek said:
Can someone tell me why I have 512/456K memory total and after all
programs load I have 69K available. However after I run SpeedUpMyPC that
app get me 272,356K avail. What is this all about? Why do I need a third
party app to get back 272K of memory?

Any help?

TIA
Click to expand...

Available memory should more accurately be described as "useless
memory" because that is what it actually represents - memory for which
Windows has so far been unable to find any beneficial use for.

By design, Windows will always attempt to find some use, anything
whatever that might potentially be of some benefit, for every bit of
the installed RAM rather than just leaving the RAM sit there idle
doing absolutely no good at all. And just as soon as some better use
comes along for some of that RAM then Windows will instantaneously
drop the more trivial usages so as to free up whatever amount is now
required.

Memory freeing programs such as your SpeedUpMyPC and others actually
slow down your PC by forcing it to reduce the size of the disk cache
and to unload .DLL files and other program code from recently closed
applications. Then when (and it is very often "when" and not "if")
these items are required again it will take up to 1,000 times longer
for the computer to reload those items from the hard drive than it
would have if they had been left in RAM.

Hope this explains the situation.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."
 
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